Brick-pallet.



A. J. & FJF. BENTLEY.

BRICK PALLET.

APPLICATION FILED 0cT.26. m4.

1,140,104. Patented May 18, 1915.

THE NORRIS PETERS CO.. PHOTC-LITHO), WASHNGIUN. D. C,

ANSON J. BENTLEY, or Nuns, AND FRANK F. BENTLEY, wnnnnrtonro.

BRICK-PALLET.

Specification of ietters Patent.

PatentedMaylS, 1915.

Application filed October 26, 1914. Serial No. 868,783. A

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, ANsoN J. BENTLEY and FRANK vF. BENTLEY, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Niles, Ohio, and Warren, Ohio, respectively, and doing business at Niles, in the county of Trumbull and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brick-Pallets, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in brick-pallets of the kind shown in our Letters Patent No. 833665, October 16th, 1906, and No. 859039, July 2nd, 1907; and the objects of our invention are :To retain the levelness of the pallets during transporta-. tion of the bricks to and from the rack driers; to keep them apart while lying on the cars; to permit a free circulation of air between the bricks on the pallets; and to provide a reversible pallet with convenient grasping edges or handles.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the novel details of construction or combination of parts more fully hereinafter disclosed and particularly pointed out in the claims. I

Referring to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which like numerals designate like parts in all the views Figure 1 is a perspective view of a .brick pallet made in accordance with our invention; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the parts shown in Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective view of one corner of the pallet, illustrating the handle thereof.

1 represents the body portion ofthepallet, which is formed by cutting away the metal of a sheet along the edges 3 to leave the four projecting portions or edges 2.

. The metal 4: associated with said projecting edges 2 is next bent at an angle to the body 1 as indicated at 5, and said metal rolled up on a former, or by other means, into the tubular shape shown, thus constituting a substantially closed tube integral with and extending across, the body portion 1 of the pallet. That portion of the rolled metal 4 which extends beyond the edges 3 of the body portion 1, form convenient grasping ends or handles 6, while the body portion 1 extends in the pallets.

dles 6, so that the latter will always maintain said body portion above the supporting surface 7 of the pallet as will be clear from the drawings. Not only do the rolled handles 6 maintain the body portion 1 above the support 7 and thus afford a space for the free circulation ofair between said body portion and support, but the extensions or handles 6 provide another space between the edges 3 of adjacent pallets, which permits'a Y inn rnp STATES PATENT 0mm. V

direction of diameter of said rolled han- I surfaces on said body 1,'for these features enable the pallet tobe readily reversed and either side of the body 1 used at will. This latter feature is often of importance When the said body becomes warped or bent for a reversal of the pallet then tends in use to straighten it; and further by omitting the turned over edges '2, 2' of our Patent No. 1064811, 'June 17, 1913, we provide a freer circulation of air under and between the It is in these important particulars that the'present invention diflers from that ofour said Patent No. 1064811.

What we claim is 1. A reversible pallet having a flat body portion having two unobstructed flat surfaces and two cut away side edges; and'a rolled handle portion integral with and extending across each end of said body portion, each of said handle portions also extending beyond each side edge, and above and below each flat surface of said body p01 tion, whereby said pallet may be readilyv reversed in use, substantially as described.

2. A reversible brick pallet comprising a metal sheet having a body portionwithflat surfaces cut away at'the sides leavingunobstructed edges and providing extensions on either side thereof; and said extensions being bent at an angle to said body portion portion, sub- 3. A reversible brick pallet comprising a In testimony whereof We affiX our signabody portion having two flat unobstructed tures in presence of two Witnesses.

surfaces and cut away side edges combined ANSON J. BENTLEY.

with integral hollow rolled handle Inenibers FRANK 'F. BENTLEY. 5 extending beyond said side edges, and also Witnesses:

beyond said flat surfaces, substantially as M. G. SULLIVAN,

described. ELLEN LEVITT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each,'by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

